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   conviction. Three appeal judges on Thursday found Greg Lynn, 59, had faced a   
   "substantial miscarriage of justice" and ordered a murder conviction be set   
   aside. They found the ex-Jetstar pilot's lawyers had proven a number of   
   irregularities in Lynn's 2024 jury trial over the deaths of missing campers   
   Carol Clay, 73, and Russell Hill, 74.   
      
      
   The pair had disappeared from a remote campsite in Victoria's High Country,   
   where Lynn was also camping, in March 2020.   
      
      
   Lynn was remanded in custody and will face the Supreme Court for a directions   
   hearing on January 28. His lawyers could apply for Lynn to be released on   
   bail ahead of a fresh trial.   
      
   (bbc/abc/guardian)   
      
   WA Health is set to build a new statewide data platform and trial an AI   
   system to optimise patient flow and bed availability.   
      
      
   The data platform will be used to strengthen how patients are supported from   
   presentation through to discharge, the state government said.   
      
      
   Data from the platform will feed a live dashboard to give hospitals a clearer   
   view of demand, capacity and patient movement across the entire public health   
   system.   
      
      
   Meanwhile, the AI system will be piloted at Royal Perth Hospital from winter   
   2026 to predict length of stay and streamline hospital workflows to improve   
   bed availability.   
      
      
   The AI pilot is backed with $700,000 in funding and will be delivered with   
   the assistance of the Office of Digital Government.   
      
      
   The [AI] technology will schedule key tasks such as medical imaging,   
   laboratory tests, pharmacy medication packs, and preparing discharge   
   summaries, helping hospitals to coordinate care more efficiently, the state   
   government said.   
      
      
   If successful, there are plans to deploy the AI system at other hospitals.   
   tinyurl.com/47fnkcea   
   (itnews.com.au)   
      
   Samsung: 98,000 handsets with triple zero call issues still 'active'   
      
   Zachariah Kelly writing in itnews.com.au reveals about 98,000 Samsung   
   mobile handsets in need of software updates that will allow them to make   
   emergency calls reliably are still connecting to Australian networks,   
      
   the device maker has revealed.   
      
   Samsung told the parliamentary inquiry into the September Optus triple zero   
   outage that 1.6 million devices had successfully been updated, but that its   
   investigations had found that a further 98,000 remained "alive and active".   
      
      
   Samsung Australias mobile division Eric Chou told the inquiry that the phones   
   can still make emergency calls on Optus and Telstra networks.   
      
   However, he confirmed that they have a firmware configuration that only allow   
   them to use TPG Telecom's shuttered Vodafone-branded network to place   
   emergency calls.   
      
      
   Telstra and Optus '[networks] as of today can actually still take emergency   
   calls on those devices [without the software update]. Its only in incidents   
   where there is no Telstra coverage, no Optus coverage, where those [not   
   updated] devices would need to rely on the Vodafone 3G network which no   
   longer exists, Chou said.   
      
      
   Australian carriers shutdown their 3G networks in early 2024.   
      
   That means that if any one in distress tries to use one of the 98,000   
   unpatched handsets to place an emergency call when Telstra and Optus' mobile   
   networks are not available, the call will not reach triple zero operators.   
      
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   Radioworld.com, RSGB, SARL and the World Wide sources of WIA.   
      
   Kolkata:   
      
   The ham radio operators in Bengal have been able to facilitate the return of   
   a mentally challenged man from Bangladesh to India.   
      
      
   Sudam Hembram originally hailing from Odisha has been estranged from his   
   family for 15 years.   
      
      
   A non-governmental organization based in Bangladesh that works in rescue and   
   rehabilitation of mentally challenged persons had contacted Ambarish Nag   
   Biswas of West Bengal Radio Club -- an organization of ham radio enthusiasts   
   in Bengal some days back and informed that they have been spotting Sudam   
   roaming aimlessly in and around Golabari station area for the last eight   
   years.   
      
      
   PMR446, the popular short-range UHF radios enjoyed in much of Europe, could   
   be enjoyed much less in Germany after changes enacted by the regulator   
   BNetZa. The regulator will prohibit operators from using any external   
   antennas with their radios and from using the radios as base stations.   
      
      
   PMR operators will also lose the ability to use their radios as repeaters or   
   as Internet gateways -- two functions widely available to amateur radio   
   operators. The PMR radios, which operate on 16 frequencies within the 446 MHz   
   band, will be only be permitted to be used for so-called "peer-to-peer" or   
   person-to-person mode.   
      
      
   Last Friday, December 12, the Marconi Radio Club of Newfoundland (MRCN)   
   and its sister club, the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club (PARC) in England   
   commemorated Marconis first transatlantic wireless experiment in   
   collaboration with the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering   
   (IEEE) and hosted by the Memorial Universitys Johnson Geo Centre.   
      
      
   This year was the 124th anniversary of Marconis first transatlantic wireless   
   experiment and, to mark this, a 2-way radio station installed   
      
   at the Johnson Geo Centre a few hundred metres from the site where Marconi   
   conducted his famous 1901 experiment on Signal Hill sprung into life.   
      
   They presented on Marconi and radio art and science followed by a workshop   
   whereby participants will be constructing crystal radios then exchanged   
      
   greetings with colleagues in Villa Griffone, Cape Cod, and Glace Bay via   
   Amateur Radio.   
      
      
   In the afternoon a direct 2-way High Frequency radio contact with   
   colleagues in Poldhu to receive the letter S and send radio telegrams from   
   officials of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial   
   University, and the NL section of the IEEE.   
      
      
   NASA is once again offering the public a chance to fly around the Moon by   
   submitting their names for inclusion on a digital boarding pass that will   
   travel aboard Artemis II.   
      
      
   The names will be stored on an SD card inside the Orion spacecraft when four   
   astronautsundertake the first crewed flight of the Artemis program in 2026,   
   yep it IS next year!   
      
      
   Sign-ups and details are available at the link we like in the written word   
   edition of this your WIA NATIONAL NEWS.   
      
      
   www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/.   
      
   Whilst looking further than INTERNATIONAL, Time on Mars runs slightly faster   
   than on Earth, according to new calculations by NIST researchers,   
      
   who found that clocks on the Martian surface gain about 477 microseconds per   
   day relative to terrestrial time.   
      
      
   The difference arises from Mars weaker surface gravity, highly elliptical   
   orbit, and changing distance from the Sun and the EarthMoon system, all of   
   which alter the rate at which clocks tick under general relativity.   
      
      
   Although the offset amounts to less than a millisecond per day, modern   
   navigation and communication systemssuch as GPS and future Mars-based   
   networksrequire timing precision far tighter than a microsecond. The effect   
   is also not constant: depending on Mars orbital position, the daily time gain   
   can vary by as much as 226 microseconds. As planning advances for autonomous   
   rover operations, relay satellites, and eventual crewed missions, engineers   
   will need to incorporate these relativistic corrections to prevent timing   
   drift and data inconsistencies   
      
      
      
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